Let's Talk
I am available to:

  • Facilitate writers workshops

  • Facilitate podcasting workshops

  • Participate in arts programming

  • Write sensitivity reports on trans and gender diverse topics

  • Consult on anti-discrimination policies and procedures

  • Speak on community arts panels


Please contact me via email at:
spillingthetcollective@gmail.com Photographer: Rachel Main
Shortlist
'THE ADA'S' WILLIAMSTOWN LITERARY AWARDS
2021
Winner
ABC HOMESPUN LISTENER STORYTELLING COMPETITION
2021
Finalist
THE NWF/JOANNE BURNS MICROLIT AWARD
2020
Winner
TRANSDEMIC: EXCELLENCE IN LGBTIQ MEDIA REPORTING IN THE 2020 GLOBE AWARDS
2020
Finalist
WESTFIELD LOCAL HERO AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER WARRIORS
2020
Induction
THE AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUIDE PATHWAYS VIA ON AIR: AUDIO ORIGINALS WRITING COMPETITION
2020
Winner
Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship
2020
Winner
Australian Society of Authors, Award Mentorship
2020
(Featured)
Kill Your Darlings (Essay)
Writing
Published:
Apr 2021
The Guilty Pleasure of the Aldi Mystery Aisle...See More
(Featured)
Best Day Worst Day (Podcast Series)
Podcast
Published:
2020
Welcome to Best Day, Worst Day. This is a podcast where I take the time to have a chat with a different LGBTIQA+ activist or creative and ask them to tell me about a good day they’ve had and a bad day they’ve had...See More
(Featured)
Queer View Mirror on 3RRR (Talk Show)
Podcast
Published:
2020
Weekly summer show on Triple R covering LGBTIQA+ arts and current affairs...See More
Podcast (4)
Best Day Worst Day (2020)
Long-form interviews with LGBTIQA+ activists and artists; a mental health peer support podcast...See More
Queer View Mirror on 3RRR (2020)
Weekly summer show on Triple R covering LGBTIQA+ arts and current affairs...See More
Transdemic (2020)
Trans and gender diverse experiences of the pandemic...See More
Transgender Warriors (2020)
Long-form interviews with trans and gender diverse creatives on Joy 94.9 ...See More
Writing (16)
Grattan Street Press – Intermissions (Nov 2021)
The Monster of Ravenna...See More
Fruit Journal (UK) – Magic Waters (SEP 2021 )
CREATIVE NON FICTION...See More
Baby Teeth Journal – The Nub (AUG 2021)
Creative Non-Fiction...See More
Kill Your Darlings (Apr 2021)
The Guilty Pleasure of the Aldi Mystery Aisle...See More
Kill Your Darlings (MAY 2021)
KAYA WILSON – AS BEAUTIFUL AS ANY OTHER...See More
The Victorian Writer (Jun 2021)
BODY LANGUAGE - FACIAL FAT DEPOSITS MAKETH THE MAN...See More
GriffithReview (May 2021)
The sad stats - The trauma of community law featured in the states of mind edition of the Griffith Review...See More
Bent Street 5.1 Anthology (JUNE 2021)
‘Soft Borders, Hard Edges’ is a special edition of australian LGBTIQA+ journal focusing on the trans and gender diverse community...See More
Antithesis Journal (OCT 2020)
THE EVIDENCE – FEATURED IN Antithesis VOL.30. ANTITHESIS is Australia’s long-running graduate journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture...See More
Overland Literary Journal (April 2021) (Apr 2021)
TRANSGENDER RIGHTS/VIOLENCE - We want more justice for Mhelody than the system can ever give to her...See More
Overland Literary Journal (May 2020) (May 2020)
our plague year - CORONAVIRUS/HEALTH/HISTORY...See More
Archer Magazine (FEB 2020)
Trans masc writers: Looking for stories like mine...See More
Overland Literary Journal (March 2019) (Mar 2019)
The first Pride March in Footscray was everything a Pride March should be...See More
Queer Stories (May 2020)
i’ll ride with you - Working at a community legal centre, Sam makes an unlikely friend...See More
ABC Homespun (MAR 2020)
How a car crash helped Sam transition into his true self...See More
Baby Teeth Journal (APR 2020)
creative non fiction - Passport Control...See More
About
Sam Elkin is a writer and radio maker living in the western suburbs of Naarm. Sam's essays have been published in the Griffith Review, Overland Literary Journal and Kill Your Darlings. He is the host of the 3RRR show Queer View Mirror, and is the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (forthcoming Allen & Unwin 2022).
Events
9 FEB 2022
Let Me Get Something Off My Chest, midsumma
Price: $16 — 22
Where: Online

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